शोधक

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शोधक (śodhaka).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃoː.d̪ʱək/,

शोधक • (śodhak) (indeclinable)

1. purificatory, purifying, refining
2. cleansing, purgative
3. investigating

शोधक • (śodhak) m

1. (arithmetic, algebra) the subtrahend, the quantity to be subtracted from a number (to render it capable of yielding an exact square root)
2. a purifier,
3. an investigator, researcher

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “शोधक”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “शोधक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “शोधक”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

From the root शुध् (śudh, “to be cleared or cleansed or purified, become pure”) +‎ -अक (-aka).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɐw.dʱɐ.kɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɕoː.d̪ʱɐ.kɐ/

शोधक • (śodhaka) stem

1. purificatory

शोधक • (śodhaka) stem, m

1. purifier
2. corrective
3. (arithmetic, algebra) "corrector", the subtrahend, the quantity to be subtracted from a number (to render it capable of yielding an exact square root)

• Monier Williams (1899) “शोधक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1091.